Yesterday morning was cold, with gorgeous blue skies. Seemed to me that a night beside the ocean was in order, so I packed up and headed south to Denman Island. This was a short ride (~35kms) on good road, so I brought my comfort gear. As you can see below, I was pretty loaded up. Fog started to set in. The shot below is from Union Bay. You can see the north end of Denman Island on the left. One catches the ferry to Denman at Buckley Bay. There's a little local coffee shop (lots of character and knick knacks) hidden around the back, if you need to wait a while. The pic below shows a backup ferry docked at Buckley Bay. The fog has settled in. The ride across to Denman is 2 kms and less than 1
I'm teaching a course early next year, and have been spending too much time sitting in front of a computer pulling together material. I was getting antsy, so headed off riding & camping. West from Campbell River there's a grand hinterlands of lakes, backroads & camping spots: I started my ride through there, but was heading further west to check out a couple of new lakes. The above pic is from Brewster Lake, where I camped on my way back. This past spring and summer, I spent lots of time out riding to far flung corners of Vancouver Island to fill in some gaps for my website. I saw lots of bears and 95% of them behaved like they are supposed to, One bear, though, gave me a scare, so now I rid
